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exposed

exposed

1.8
Not covered by clothes and showing skin
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈspoʊzd/
translation icon : expuesto
  • He wore a sleeveless shirt that left his shoulders and arms exposed to the sun.

She got an exposed wall, exposed brick wall in her room.

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Examples

  • During the winter, her arms were exposed to the cold air, making her shiver.

  • So I'm going to do the exposed skin first.

  • This shower is extremely exposed which I love.

  • So he found this beautiful warehouse with exposed wooden beams.

  • As you can see some of the exposed components in this matte black finish right here.

  • We have a wood table, mugs, exposed brick, glass, metal.

  • She got an exposed wall, exposed brick wall in her room.

  • Got that nice exposed brick for that chic vibe.

  • Plug sockets and light fittings taken off the walls leaving exposed wires.

  • The statue had an exposed face that was weathered by time and elements.

Synonyms

bare
vsexposed
217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

is limited to lack of clothing rather than broader artistic or object meanings
nude
vsexposed
  • NSFW
89 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is used more casually and broadly than that formal sense
naked
vsexposed
  • NSFW
38 1.0

Not covered and showing the surface underneath

is a more general term that can apply beyond people
raw
vsexposed
  • NSFW
20 8.5

Completely without clothes

is more neutral and less slangy in normal speech
stark naked
vsexposed
  • NSFW
7 4.6

Completely without any clothes

is similar but does not stress total completeness as strongly
unclothed
vsexposed
  • NSFW
4 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is a slightly broader word usable in many contexts
bare-assed
vsexposed
  • Offensive
2 9.6

Completely without clothes with the bottom showing

is a neutral alternative not carrying coarse or vulgar tone
bare-ass
vsexposed
  • Offensive
2 9.9

Completely without clothes

serves as the polite or neutral expression instead of crude language
unclad
vsexposed
  • NSFW
1 7.5

Not wearing any clothes

is the everyday expression rather than this slightly formal alternative
uncovered
vsexposed
  • NSFW
1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

is the more general everyday word rather than a technical phrasing
unattired
vsexposed
  • NSFW
9.1

Not wearing any clothes

is the common conversational term rather than formal phrasing
undressed
vsexposed
  • NSFW
1.9

A person who is not wearing any clothes

focuses on being simply uncovered rather than the act of removal
undraped
vsexposed
8.1

Not covered with cloth or curtains, so visible and open

is used widely for people and things, not mainly for art
in the raw
vsexposed
  • NSFW
8.8

A person who has no clothes on

is the neutral term rather than this idiomatic informal expression
peeled
vsexposed
  • NSFW
9.9

Completely without clothes on

is the regular non-slang word for lack of clothing

Antonyms

1 1.0

Having something on top or around it

1 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

How Exposed

naked
  • NSFW
982 1.0
bare
217 2.2
exposed
1.8
half-clothed
  • NSFW
1 4.6
clothed
1.2

Surface Forms

exposed positive

Morphology

exposed = expose (transparent) = expose + ed

Standard adjectival/past-participial formation from the verb 'expose' (+ -ed); meaning 'made bare or uncovered' is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

Exposed comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and pose meaning 'to put', the same root you see in position and pose. So something 'exposed' is 'put out' of cover, like skin or a shoulder that is left bare and not covered.